SPECIAL GUESTS: Morten Strunge - Podimo John Spurlock - OP3.dev SHOW NOTES & LINKS: Podcast companies are buying short podcast plays within mobile game apps , causing official downloads of shows no one may be playing longer than twenty seconds according to Bloomberg 's Ashley Carman. Time has also published the story outside a paywall . Players get game tokens if they listen to a podcast for just twenty seconds. (Carman posts a graphic ). But, because more than 60 seconds of audio are downlo...
Sep 30, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Sponsors: Buzzsprout Ads can now Monetize Your Back Catalog, by finding insertion points in your entire back catalogue automatically. SquadCast invites you to join their new Slack channel, DM @SquadCastFM if you want to join. Notes & Links: Spotify has launched audiobooks (in the US only). Audiobooks are an extra cost and you’ll be taken to a website to purchase them. Spotify has signed a deal with Wattpad to bring Indonesian and Filipino webnovel authors to podcasting. Spotify’s video podca...
Sep 23, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Special Guests: Dino Sofos - Founder and CEO, Persephonica Eric Nuzum - Co-founder, Magnificent Noise Mike Kadin - Founder and CEO at RedCircle Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Guest Interviews: Eric Nuzum - Magnificent Noise Alex Newall - Rusty Quill Ltd Show Notes: 1. Spotify Spotify is the top podcast network in the US based on reach , according to new data from Edison Research. Spotify now has separate home feeds for Music and Podcasts & Shows! Audiobooks are coming to Spotify “reasonably soon” , according to CFO Paul Vogel. 2. Alby Alby has launched an analytics website for Value 4 Value , the podcast funding method from the Podcast Index. The website, called ...
Sep 16, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Guest Interviews Ian Forrester - BBC R&D - Adaptive Podcasting Rene Aaron - Alby - New Dashboard Show Notes The BBC Global News Podcast 's presenter Jackie Leonard, and producer Karen Martin, spoke at Radiodays Asia in Malaysia. The show, which is also recording a special edition at the event, is one of the top-rated shows in many Asian countries, with 33m downloads a month. In collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union and partners, BBC R&D has developed an open-source platform ...
Sep 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 91
James Cridland and Sam Sethi return for this week's show NEWS: Adam Curry , the “podfather”, spoke with Dave Jones at Podcast Movement 2022, explaining the history of open podcasting, the Podcast Index and the features available with the new podcast namespace Edison Research and Sounds Profitable issued reports at Podcast Movement, Dallas The Podcast Broker, a new service for buying and selling podcasts , was launched at Podcast Movement. The service is the brainchild of TrueNativeMedia’s Heathe...
Sep 01, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 90
We're sponsored by Buzzsprout and SquadCast. James Cridland joined Todd Cochrane from Blubrry, Rob Greenlee from Libsyn, Tangia Estrada from BIPOC Podcast Creators, and Heather Osgood from The Podcast Broker and True Native Media. This week, the show is from the New Media Show, live on stage at Podcast Movement. This version has been lightly edited from the original. You can find the New Media Show in your favourite podcast app. Want to watch? Here's the show as originally recorded. https://www....
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 89
This week's stories discussed by James Cridland and Sam Sethi The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint against Huel and The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett . We asked Paul Chantler , one of the UK’s media law experts, how should you keep your host-read podcast ad legal ? Oprah Winfrey’s company has filed a lawsuit against fan podcast Oprahdemics from Radiotopia. Libsyn is expanding to Europe by acquiring German podcast company Julep Media . The Latino Podcast Listener ...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Evo Terra joins James Cridland this week, while Sam drinks wine in Europe somewhere. Evo's podcast is at podcast pontifications and he runs simpler.media Special Guest: Dan Misener co-founder of Bumper . Podcast guests are paying up to $50,000 to appear on popular shows, and the podcasts don’t disclose it, according to a piece from Ashley Carman in Bloomberg. It quotes a number of podcasts who charge more than $30,000 per interview… and they only added a full disclosure (an FTC requirement) afte...
Aug 11, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Guest Interviews John Spurlock - Thread.land Matt Medeiros - Castos Show Notes Acast has released the company’s Q2/22 financial report . The Swedish company now hosts 66,000 podcasts (a record growth last quarter); the number of listens in the quarter increased 41% year-on-year. The company lost $11m in the quarter, though now expects to make EBITDA profit in 2024, earlier than previously expected. “The heavy investment phase is now over, " says CEO Ross Adams, noting that the advertising market...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Guest Interview Alberto Betella - CTO RSS.com Show Notes Podcast host RSS.com is to announce integration with Alby this week: enabling value 4 value for thousands of podcasts. You’ll be able to activate and link your Alby account with your podcast in RSS.com’s dashboard . RSS has produced a video showing how it works on their platform Monetize your @CastosHQ podcast with @getAlby and @PodcastindexOrg value4value tag! Castos has produced a video showing how it works on their platform Full List of...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Special Guests Moritz Kaminski - Alby Ross Adams - Acast Bradley Davis - Podchaser Show Notes Acast is to acquire Podchaser , the “world’s most comprehensive and authoritative podcast database” in a deal worth $34m . Podchaser , which is expected to make a profit next year, will continue to operate as a separate brand: it contains data of more than 4.5m million podcasts, including advertising information. The integration will bring additional data to Acast’s advertisers. The podcast landscape is...
Jul 21, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Special Guests: Mitch Downey - Podverse Mike Mignano - Angel Investor and ex-Spotify Show Notes: Michael Mignano , has written a piece about what he calls The Standards Innovation Paradox. In response, James Cridland wrote a long article that basically points out that Apple took the RSS standard and enhanced it. The thing that Mike Mignano says is impossible. Adam Curry said: Spotify is the shitcoin of podcasting . Spotify is expanding the ability to post video podcasts for creators in six new c...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Special Guests Harry Duran - Full Cast Oscar Merry - Fountain App Show Notes Podverse adds support for LIT and Video Support . Podcast Host Ranking from John Spurlock Fountain rewards users for listening to podcasts Blubrry has launched 'podcast media kits’ that update daily Libsyn Studio Anchor podcast fraud . Here’s a link with details on how to report them Alby, a browser extension for cryptocurrency, has added its own podcaster wallet . The service allows you to earn from your listeners as t...
Jul 08, 2022•46 min•Season 1Ep. 82
Special Guests Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable Zachariah Moreno & Rock Felder - Squadcast Sophie Hind & Jim Salveson - VoiceWorks Show Notes Sounds Profitable released The Creators , a study of the people who create podcasts. Tom Webster revealed that US podcast creators are more diverse than the US population, but are significantly younger and more male. Most own both Android and iOS devices, though more than four in ten podcast creators have been listening to podcasts for under a year....
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 81
Special Guests Carlos Diaz - Uncut.fm is a new podcast platform that lets you "mint, share and sell your content as NFTs". Jake Warren - UK podcast production company Message Heard has signed with CAA Show Notes Breaking: Acast+ has announced an integration with Facebook. It allows Acast+ subscribers to offer members-only Facebook groups, as a launch partner of new Facebook functionality . Fountain is now rewarding people for listening to shows with Bitcoin , which they can then share with their...
Jun 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Special Guest Ken Miller - CTO Fathom New podcast app Fathom, designed for better podcast discovery, has been launched on iOS and in-browser. It promises you can “ask any question and hear answers from your favourite podcasters and their guests.” https://fathom.fm/podcast/podland-news Show Notes Breaking: Apple Podcasts has published details of how search in its app works. The post includes clarification that ratings and reviews aren’t factored into search results; and that the search function s...
Jun 16, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 79
Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout. Buzzsprout the world’s second largest podcast host, has just formally announced Buzzsprout Ads , letting podcasters buy adverts for their shows (and other podcasters to earn revenue). We’re using them - automatically inserted by Buzzsprout Ads. Show Notes & Links Spotify had an Investor Day last Wednesday . “Spotify share price slid 55% this year. Daniel Ek said Spotify would grow beyond music, increasing creator tools and moving ...
Jun 10, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,210 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Dave Jones - Pod Sage from Podcast Index talks about ... Value 4 Value Lightning Network WebLN Alby Hive's Podping Podcast Index new tags <podcast:liveItem> and <podcast:block> Show Notes & Links One of podcasting’s largest hosting comp...
Jun 02, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 77
Show notes are coming soon for this episode. Send James & Sam a message Support the show Connect With Us: Email: [email protected] Fediverse: @[email protected] and @[email protected] Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support Get Podnews: podnews.net...
May 26, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,282 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Ashley Carman - Bloomberg Show Notes & Links James Cridland Radio Days Europe - Roundup Selling paid subscriptions through Apple Podcasts? Until now, you’ve had to upload that audio separately to Apple; but Apple Podcasts Delegated Delivery was ann...
May 21, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,437 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser and using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Tom Webster - Sounds Profitable Show Notes & Links Tom Webster has announced he is to join Sounds Profitable as Partner . Writing in Sounds Profitable, he outlines the future for Sounds Profitable - to share content, research, run events and adviso...
May 12, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Sponsors Buzzsprout - last week, 3,549 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout NEW: Squadcast - Create high-quality audio and video content just using your browser: and, using Dolby Enhanced Audio Mastering, they’ll sound better than ever. Special Guest Steve Jones - Content Director at Crowd Network Show Notes & Links: Facebook is pulling out of podcasts and will close the service starting Jun 3 . The company will stop creators adding podcasts to the service this week. They don’t plan to c...
May 05, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,448 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Guests Tom Billington - Content Director for The Podcast Show Neil Mody - CEO & Co-Founder Headliner Show Notes & Links: Spotify’s Anchor has rolled out proprietary video podcasts to all Anchor users in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK . Paid subscriptions will be available for these shows, too; additionally, Anchor has integrated with Riverside . Remote recording tool Riverside has just rais...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 31 min•Season 1Ep. 72
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,684 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Notes & Links: 1. Spotify Selling Vapourware Again!? In June 2021, Spotify announced the Spotify Greenroom Creator Fund for US creators to “support and reward creators for the communities they build and the experiences they create”, as part of the launch of Spotify Greenroom . However, the fund never launched; and yesterday, Spotify emailed applicants, admitting that the program had been cancelled . 2. Gaming the ...
Apr 21, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 71
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,686 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Lauren Passell - CEO TinkMedia talks about why she has launched a podcast swap database for podcasters interested in setting up a promo swap for their podcast. Notes & Links: An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune has been accused of being a shameless rip-off by Brendan I Koerner, a journalist for The Atlantic . He accuses the podcaster, Jesse Rapaport , of knowingly stealing his work. Spotif...
Apr 14, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Sponsor Buzzsprout - last week, 3,847 people started a podcast with Buzzsprout Special Guest Harry Duran talks about how he found a sponsor for his new podcast, raising $9k before launching SubStack Substack is moving into podcasting - “but better” . The platform also lets you podcast for free YouTube YouTube is the third most popular podcast platform in America Should your podcast be on YouTube? Rephonic crunch the data: revealing that for English-language shows, it could well be worthwhile. Th...
Apr 07, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 69
SPECIAL GUEST: Chris Messina NEWS: YouTube: Exclusive: YouTube is planning tighter integration, monetisation and analytics for podcasts. Despite no announcement from YouTube’s director of podcasting, Kai Chuk, at Podcast Movement Evolutions last week YouTube is looking at ingesting podcast RSS feeds directly with a new podcasts homepage to be at youtube.com/podcasts (a URL that doesn’t work, yet) Spotify: Spotify is working on a brand new podcast interface. Spotted by Chris Messina , who posted ...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Special Guest Alban Brooke - Head of Marketing at Buzzsprout News: Kai Chuk from YouTube presented but said nothing about their future plans Matt Deegan writes more about podcasters using video in his newsletter By the end of the year, it’s going to be essential that podcasters are creating proper video versions of their shows. - Matt Deegan It’s also why nearly 20% of podcast listeners regard YouTube as their main podcast app . - Tom Webster Tom Webster from Edison Research, warns podcasters to...
Mar 26, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 67
MONTY PYTHON: Spam Sketch SPECIAL GUEST: Marty Michael - CEO & Co-Founder Gumball Gumball has raised $10 million to expand its podcasting host-read advertising platform . The company was built by the team behind the Headgum Podcast Network. NEWS: Podcast host Acast is still spamming podcasters, even co-founders of rival podcast networks , or hosts of shows that ended three years ago . Libsyn's Rob Walch correctly notes "Friends don't send emails starting 'hello friend' (as Acast's do), and t...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 66
